Chapter 68: Sending Troops (1)
This kind of change in people's hearts, the county Yin Feng Fule is naturally also aware of it, and this is one of the reasons why he borrowed people from the Zhang family. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It is indeed one of the reasons why Feng Fule borrowed people because the officers and soldiers were not able to use much, but the more important reason was that Feng Fule was also afraid that the officers and soldiers sent out would have any accidents.
At present, although there are many mobs in the county who resist taxes, and robbers take advantage of the opportunity to loot, the situation is not completely chaotic, and he Feng Fule can still control the situation now.
But he also knew that he had to act on behalf of the imperial court, otherwise there would be more and more tax-resistant mobs in the county, and the greedy robbers would also gain an inch. However, in this way, the problem also comes, if Feng Fule sends the officers and soldiers in the county to suppress it, if it succeeds, it will certainly be able to stabilize the situation temporarily, but if the officers and soldiers fail, the situation in the county will be completely eroded overnight, and then it may really be "the imperial power is not in the county".
Therefore, Feng Fule came up with such a way to borrow someone from the Zhang family, which is not a way. In fact, Feng Fule's abacus is also very good, in his mind, with the conditions he offered, Zhang Liewu and the Zhang family will definitely not refuse, as long as they can borrow that group of archers who can fight well from the Zhang family, he can let the group of archers go to suppress the group of mobs and bandits, if the archers succeed, the situation in the county can not only be stabilized, but also form a hint to people.
Think about it, even the archers of the county's inspection department are so powerful, so aren't the officers and soldiers in the county even more powerful.
Take another 10,000 steps back and say, even if the group of archers fails, he Feng Fule will not have any big loss, after all, the officers and soldiers in the county are still there, and they can still form a deterrent to the mobs and robbers outside the county, so that the group of mobs and robbers who have just received the blow can stop for two days.
In this way, no matter whether this group of archers wins or loses, it will be good for him Feng Fule. Although there is some price to be paid for borrowing this group of archers, as long as he can handle this matter well, the court will not notice him, so those costs will naturally be nothing.
But what he never expected was that the Zhang family actually refused, and they refused without thinking about it, and the refusal was so simple, there was no room for maneuver for him, the top boss.
So when he learned about it from his master, the kind of wishful thinking failed, his subordinates didn't give face, and the helplessness hidden deep in his heart made him surprisingly angry. That night, he didn't even eat dinner, and stayed alone in the study, smashing everything he could.
Feng Fule sat alone on the chair in the study, looking at the messy room, he couldn't help but sigh, and after calming down, he stared at the roof with blank eyes, and then couldn't help but suddenly let out a miserable laugh.
"County Yin, the respect of a county, a hundred miles of waiting, gou fart, all his niang is gou fart." He laughed at himself almost madly.
But even so, Feng Fule's voice was still not loud, and it was estimated that only he could hear his words.
The next day, that is, the third day of the fifth month, the county Yin Feng Fule walked out of the back hall with a dignified face as usual, looking at him now, as if everything had not happened last night.
After that, he also thought about the same as before, and took his master to Qiantang County Office, but this time he didn't think about handling official business there, but immediately called Liu Qian, the county lieutenant in the county, and ordered him to gather the officers and soldiers of the county, and let him lead the officers and soldiers in the afternoon to suppress the group of tax-resistant mobs in Xucheng Town.
If Liu Qian had received this kind of order before, he would have been absolutely crazy, but since Liu Qian knew that the county lieutenant in Yingshang had died at the end of last month because of the suppression of bandits, Liu Qian naturally had a fear of this kind of thing in his heart, and the rebellion of the people in the county who resisted taxes and the robbery of the robbers further intensified Liu Qian's fear of war. After all, he worked so hard to become a county lieutenant, not to lead people to fight against those mud-legged and bandits.
But Feng Fule is his top boss after all, and Liu Qian is still very afraid of this boss who has a certain skill and city government. Besides, he is a county lieutenant, and it is his duty to suppress bandits and reassure the people and suppress the rebellious people, and it is impossible for him to directly disobey and refuse.
In the past, when Liu Qian encountered such a thing, he could still go to Su Ri Lakun in the prison county, after all, if the county did not open his mouth, what the county Yin said would be useless. But two months ago, Feng Fule gave Su Ri Lakun a Jiangnan man, and now Su Ri Lakun was fascinated by that woman, and he was even more obedient to that woman's words, so he and Feng Fule had a close relationship.
Now Liu Qian's relationship with Rilakun is not as good as before, it is estimated that he found Su Rilakun by himself, and this white-eyed wolf-like prison county will not help him in this kind of matter.
Therefore, although Liu Qian was very reluctant in his heart, he still took the order head-on.
It is said that Liu Qian is the county lieutenant in the county after all, no matter how incompetent he is, he should have some prestige among the officers and soldiers in the county.
But Liu Qian really deserves to be called "keeping money", that is really a greedy guy who fell into the eye of money. Over the years, Liu Qian has relied on the convenience of his position to squeeze those officers and soldiers under his command to death, although this guy is afraid of death, but he is very bold in money. For the sake of money, he not only deducted the salaries of his officers and soldiers, but also ate empty salaries, but also regarded the officers and soldiers as their own family workers, and even dared to resell the armor of the officers and soldiers in the county treasury.
Therefore, Liu Qian can be said to have no prestige at all among the officers and soldiers in the county.
The reason why Liu Qian has been able to suppress his officers and soldiers over the years is because he is a county lieutenant and the boss of the officers and soldiers; The second reason is that in the past two years, he has turned all the 300 households of the officers and soldiers in the county into his own people.
If you think about it, you can understand that the chief officials like Liu Qian are their own people, and the three hundred household officials are naturally not good people.
As the old saying goes: "The upper beam is not right, the lower beam is crooked", the chief officials and the officials of the hundred households in the county are all this virtue, and the officers and soldiers below are naturally not much better.
Although there are many people with conscience among the officers and soldiers, those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, and in such a manure tank-like barracks, even if those people want to not fly on their bodies, they will not be able to do it.
Except for a few who were really unwilling to join the stream and left, the rest were also contaminated and began to join the same stream with those soldiers and ruffians. After all, the bottom line is like the pants that men wear when they come out, once they are put down, they can never be lifted again.
Therefore, the combat effectiveness of this group of officers and soldiers in the county is absolutely pitiful.
In this Taihe County, it is said that there are 300 officers and soldiers, but almost one-third of the officers and soldiers are shadow soldiers, and they are paid by the officials of 100 households, county lieutenants and others. That is to say, all the officers and soldiers in the entire county town add up to only 200 people, and excluding those old, weak, sick and disabled, the entire county town is more than 100 young and strong officers and soldiers.
This shortfall is definitely an appalling thing to the ears of our future generations. But in ancient times, it was a common unspoken rule for officers to eat empty salaries.
For example, a few years later, Zhu Yuanzhang rebelled, and when he arrived at a post station, he found that there was only one old pawn in the entire post station, so he asked the old pawn: "There should be half a soldier in the post station, but why is there only one soldier in the entire post station?" ”
When the old soldier heard Zhu Yuanzhang's words, he took out a few pieces of paper with names written on them from his arms, and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "The other soldiers are here." ”
It can also be seen from this that the officers of the Yuan Dynasty drank the blood of soldiers and ate empty salaries to what extent.
Therefore, county lieutenant Liu Qian eats empty pay and drinks the blood of soldiers, which is not a strange thing at all in this era. Even he Liu Qian only ate 30% of the empty salary, which is still considered conscientious now, you must know that at this time, some Jiangnan areas, not to mention that they are eating 30% of the empty salary, it would be good if the number of officers and soldiers can be left with 30%, otherwise you think how the officers and soldiers of Yingshang were defeated at the end of last month.
However, it is an unspoken rule after all, although most of the officials are well aware of this matter, but those ordinary people do not know that there is such an unspoken rule among the officers and soldiers, after all, the imperial court has always levied taxes on the people according to the quota of 300 officers and soldiers, and if the people know that most of the hard-earned money they have paid has gone into the pockets of that group of corrupt officials, it is strange that the people do not make trouble.
So when Liu Qian took the order, the first problem was how to fool the people in the county, after all, the people are not stupid, as long as the gap between 300 and 100 people is not blind, it is a person who can distinguish it.
However, these officers have not been paid for nothing for so many years, and they have not known how many times they have encountered this kind of problem, so they naturally have a complete set of solutions.
Isn't it just that there are not enough people, and there are no other men in the families of these soldiers, so temporarily let them bring their brothers and even their fathers in their families to make up the numbers, then it will be done, if this can't be done, aren't there idle people and hooligans on the street?
As for whether the people know it, why do they care so much? As long as the face is good-looking, it is like that, and it can be handed over to the top. As for the group of mud legs, as long as the number of people is full and they pay the errand to the top, who cares what the group of mud legs thinks.